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No. 646,273. Patented Mar. 27, I900.

* G. P. FENNER.

FOLDER.- (Appliegtion filed June 1 1899.) .(No Model.) 3 Shaets-Sheet 2.

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Patented Mar. 27, I900.

3 Sheets-Shah 3.

G. FENNER. FOLDER.

(Application filed June 1, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT FOLDER;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 646,273, dated March a,1906.

Application filed June.1,1899-" also pasted, to form a newspaper or thelike,

as set forth in the following specification and claims'and illustratedin the annexed drawings, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a plan view of thefolder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section alonga: :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectionalong y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section along 2 a, Fig. 1. Fig. 7 shows asection from a web or endless paper strip. Fig. Sshows the section orsheet of Fig. 7 folded.

In Fig. 7 is indicated a section or strip of paper which having beendetached from an endless web and-run through a perfectingpress can bemade up into a newspaper or the like. This paper section or sheet isshown paged from 1 to 8 for an eight-page paper, although, ashereinafter seen, this invention applies also to other papers, assix-page. This section or sheet of Fig; 7 can be conveniently designatedin the following description by the pages 4 and 7, exposed in Fig. 7. If

this section 4 7 is split or separated at 9, the section-half 4 5superposed on half 2 7, paste having been applied along line 10, and thehalves then folded or creased at the corresponding lines 10 and 11, madeto superpose or contact, a newspaper is formed. This splitting at 9,pasting at 10, superposing, and folding at 10 and 11 can be effected bythe machine or folder forming the subject of this invention. The section4 7, coming off the type-cylinder 12, Fig. 4, of a perfecting-press, istaken by gripper or delivery disk 14 on shaft 15, driven by gears 16 and17. This shaft also drives the tape-or carrier sets The tapes 18 are ledover guides 20, Fig. 4, so as to be on a higher level than tapes 19. Atsaid cylinder 14 is cutting-disk or slitter 21, and as the section 4 7passes onto the tapes 18 and 19 the cutter 21 splits or separates thesection-halves 4 5 and 2 7 Serial No. 7181983. (No model.)

along line 9. The half 4 5 passes onto the higher tapes or carrier 18,while half 2 7 passes onto the lower tapes 19, both halves beingarrested by stops or' rails 22, Fig. 1. On shaft 15 is mounted a disk23, Figs 1 and 5, and as the section-half 2 7 passes between this disk23 and the roller 24 of paste-reservoir 25 a streak of paste is appliedalong line 10. The shaft 26 of disk 24 is provided with gear 27, Fig. 6,engaged by gear 28 on shaft 15 to rotate the paste-wheel 24. Thispastewheel shaft 26 with pot 25 are carried by arms 29 on shaft 30,having arm 31 engaged by cam 32 on shaft 33, driven by gear 34, suitablyconnected to or driven by gear 16. At suitable intervals the camlifts ormoves wheel 24 and gear 27 out of action, so that pasting isintermittent or only done as a paper-section is in terposed betweendisks 23 and 24. Smearing can thus be avoided. The shaft 33, bybevel-gears 35, drives'the shaft 36, with gears 37, Fig. 2, drivinggears 38 and 39, with rollers 40 and 41, Fig. 3. The roller 41 iscarried by arms 42 on shaft 43, having arm 44, actuated by cam 45. Asthe half'4 5 is carried toward stop 22 by carriers 18 the cam 45 holdsroller 41 raised, and the edge 9 of this half 4 5 comes between rollers40 and 41. The cam 45, then allowing roller 41 to drop or mesh its gear39 with gear 38, said rollers 41 and 40 are'rotated, and the edge 9 ofhalf 4 5 being caught between these rollers said half is fedtransversely to the travel of carriers 18 and 19 to bring half 4 5 overhalf 2 7. This half 4 5 being fed by rollers 40 and 41 onto tapes orcarriers 46 and 47 and having its line 11 bent by blade 48 between tapes46 and 47 onto the line or paste streak 10 of half 2 7, the two halvesadhere. The blade or folder 48 then folds the two halves at the adheringlines 11 and 10 between the creaser-rollers 49, Fig. 3, so that thehalves form a newspaper folded and pasted at the lines 10 and 11. Thetapes or transverse carriers are driven by rollers 50 and 51, havinggears 52, as seen in Fig. 1. The gears 52 or one of them is driven byintermediate pinion or in suitable manner from gear 54, driven by gear37. The gear 54 engages gear 55, these two gears driving thefolder-rollers 49, between which blade 48 inserts the crease 10 11. Theblade 48 is carried by arms 56, extended from shaft 57,

rocked at suitable intervals by arm 58' and cam 59 on shaft From rollers49 the paper or article can be carried by tape or carrier 60, Fig. Othercreaser-rollers 61 are shown, between which such paper is further foldedby blade 62 on arms 63, actuated by cam 45. Such additional folding,however, can be omitted, the machine being allowed to stop, if seen fit,with the fold 1O 11. As shown in the drawings, a folder is shown at 64,Fig. 4, having its arms actuated by cam 59 and made to crease or startthe paper between the rollers 66, Fig. 3, after which the paper can beagain folded by blade 62, already named. The folded or completed papercan be dropped into or received in a box or suitable receptacle.

The machine operates as follows: The first web-section 4 7 coming fromthe press or cylinder 12 is split at 9 as it is fed by tapes 18 and 19to stop 22. The blade 48,hung on shaft 57, then takes the first half 2and 7 of this first section, carries it between rollers 50 and 51 to becreased by rollers 49, after which this first half passes off to bewasted or thrown away. The second half 4 5 of this first websection isstarted by rollers 40 and 41 across the tapes 19 transversely or at aright angle to its previous line of travel to the folder-tapes 46 and 47across or over the opening, into which strikes the folder-blade 48. Thissecond half 4 5 of the first web-section thus comes over the first half2 and 7 of the second or next-s ucceeding web-section,which has meantimebeen fed by tapes 1S-and 19 and split by slitter 21. The first half 2and 7 of this second web-section, suitably pasted by roller or paster24,replaces the first halfof the first websection, which, as noted, waswasted, and the second half 4 5 of the first web-section having its line1 1 creased by folder 48 onto the crease or paste streak 10 of the firsthalf 2 and 7 of the second web-section the required folding and-pastingare effected.

A six-page paper can be obtained by simply shortening, or rathernarrowing, the websection to omit the leaf marked 3 4 in Fig. 7,retaining, however, sufficient of this leaf to form a narrow band orfold at 11 to be pasted to crease 10. The pages marked 5 and 6 in Fig. 7would in such case become pages 3 and 4, and the pages marked 7 and Sinsuch Fig. 7 would now be numbered 5 and 6. This, however, is a detailfor the pressm an and does not affect the invention.

A completed eight-page paper or the like is indicated in Fig. 8, and thebroken lines 67 would indicate the place of a fold made by blade, 62 ifused, while the blade 64 would fold at a right angle to or across theline 67.

This device, as seen, avoids the necessity of trimming in the folder andrequires only one cut 9, which can be a clean or straight out.

The first portion orhalf 2 and 7 when pasted and on tapes 19 is notmoved until it is covered by the second portion or half 4 5. It may benoted that the pastor 24 could be omitted if it should be desired tomerely superpose 01' fold together the halves 4 and 5 and 2 and 7without pasting.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of two sets of longitudinal traveling tapes, forcarrying two websections of paper, two sets of tapes arrangedtransversely above one set of said longitudinal tapes and traveling atright angles to the line of motion thereof, for superimposing saidweb-sections, and folding devices for folding the two superimposedweb-section's at a point between the said two sets of transverse tapes,substantially as described.

2. The combination of a cutter for dividing a paper web-section into twoweb-sections, two sets of longitudinal traveling tapes for carrying thetwo web-sections, tapes arranged transversely above and traveling atright angles to the line of motion of one set of the longitudinal tapesfor superimposing the two web-sections,feed-rollers for moving onewebsection transversely onto said transverse tapes, and folding devicesfor folding the two superimposed web-sections at a point between thesaid two sets of transverse tapes, substantially as described.

3. The combination of two sets of longitudinal traveling tapes forcarrying two separate web-sections of paper, two sets of tapes arrangedtransversely above and traveling at right angles to the line of motionof one set of the longitudinal tapes, two feed-rollers for moving oneweb-section transversely onto said transverse tapes to superimpose thetwo web-sections, mechanism for intermittingly rotating one of saidfeed-rollers, and folding devices for folding the two superimposedwebsections at a point between the said two sets of transverse tapes,substantially as described.

4. The combination of two sets of longitudinal traveling tapes forcarrying two separate web-sections of paper, two sets of tapes arrangedtransversely above and traveling at right angles to the line of motionof one of said sets of tapes, two feed-rollers for moving oneweb-section transversely onto said transverse tapes to superimpose thetwo web-sections, mechanism for moving one of the feedrollers toward andfrom the other, and folding devices for folding the two superimposedweb-sections at a point between the said two sets of transverse tapes,substantially as described.

5. The combination of two sets of longitudinal traveling tapes forcarrying two Websections of paper, one set arranged in a plane below theother set, two sets of tapes arranged transversely above and travelingat right angles to the line of motion of the lowest set of longitudinaltapes, devices for moving the web-section transversely from the highestset of longitudinal tapes onto the said transverse tapes, forsuperimposing the two web sections, a pastor for applying a line ofpaste to the web-section carried by the lowest set of longitudinaltapes,and devices for folding the two web-sections at a point betweenthe two sets of transverse tapes, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a shaft, two sets of longitudinal tapes passingaround said shaft, a paste-disk mounted on said shaft, an oscillatingpaste-reservoir having a paste-rollerin its bottom, a cam foralternately moving said reservoir to and from the paste-disk, gearscaused to intermesh and rotate the pasteroller when the reservoir ismoved to the paste-disk, and means for superimposing the twoweb-sections carried by the longitudinal tapes, substantially asdescribed.

'7. A shaft having carrier or tape sets, a cutter, a paste-disk and agear on the shaft, combined with a paste-reservoir having a disk, 9.driving-gear for the reservoir-disk, a cam for moving thepaste-reservoir toward and from the shaft and for moving the gear ofthe'reservoir-disk into and out of engagement with the gear on theshaft, and a carrier for transferring a sheet portion from one of thefirst-named tape-sets to the other substantially as described.

8. A shaft having carrier or tape sets and a shaft 33 driven by thefirst-named shaft and provided with a cam, a paste-reservoir actuated bysaid cam, a shaft 36 placed transversely to and actuated by said shaft33, rollers 40 and 41 actuated by said shaft 36, and a cam 45 on saidlast-named shaft for bringing one of the rollers into and out of actionsubstantially as described.

9. A shaft having carrier or tape sets and a shaft 33 driven by thefirst named shaft and provided with a cam, a paste-reservoir actuated bysaid cam, a transverse shaft 36 actuated by said shaft 33, rollers 40and 41 actu ated by said shaft 36, a cam 45 on said shaft 36 for causingsaid rollers to act intermittently, and a folding-blade 62 actuated bysaid cam 45 substantially as described.

10. A shaft having carrier or tape sets and a shaft 33 driven by thefirst-named shaft and provided with cams 32 and 59, a paste-reser voirand a folding-blade 48 actuated by said cams, a transverse shaft 36 anda transverse carrier comprising intermittently-acting rollers 40 and 41and tapes driven by said transverse shaft substantially as described.

11. A shaft having carrier or tape sets and a shaft 33 driven by thefirst-named shaft and provided with cams, a paste-reservoir andfolding-blades 48 and 64 actuated by said shaft 33, a transverse shaft36, and a transverse carrier and a folder 62 actuated by said transverseshaft substantially as described.

12. A shaft having carrier or tape sets, a carrier or tapes placedtransversely to the first-named tapes, rollers 40 and 41 for feedingfrom the first-named tapes to the transverse tapes, a lever 4244 forminga bearing for one of the rollers, and a cam for actuating the lever formoving said last-named roller out of and into action, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses. GEORGE P. FENNER: Witnessesi WILLIAM W. IRISH, A.A. SMITH.

